About a week ago, while eating lunch with friends, telling them about some of the criticism against Google, I explained to them why I don’t care about the great features of Gmail. My audience was all six or seven years older than me, and they were astonished that I don’t use it.
According to the college students I advise at North Park University, Twitter is still geeky and weird (and for rich white people), but phones are absolutely hip. These were “phone people;” people who live inside cell phones. Because I don’t use a cell phone (or even a laptop), desktop E-mail clients are much more sensible for me to use than web interfaces.
I have used Mozilla Corporation‘s Thunderbird E-mail client for at least four years. Right now it is on version 3, but glimpses at Thunderbird 4 are already out, and look fantastic. I’m especially excited about the underwater features it will have.
P.S. My hamburger had strips of plastic bag in it, but on the salary of an unemployed person, I appreciated the free meal.
P.P.S. I am even more unusual and hard to understand than I realized. I’m sorry if you’re confused.
